{"slug": "nasa-payload-to-ride-commercial-mars-orbiter-from-rocket-biz-yet-to-reach-orbit", "title": "NASA payload to ride commercial Mars orbiter from rocket biz yet to reach orbit", "summary": "NASA has selected a payload to fly on a commercial Mars orbiter being developed by a rocket company that has yet to reach orbit, marking a new approach to interplanetary exploration by leveraging private industry.", "body_md": "### MOST POPULAR\n\n[AI](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/ai)\n\n-\nOS platforms\n\n#### Canonical reveals Myna, its local speech-to-text app\n\nBird-branded AI will ride on Stonking Stingray\n\n-\nSCIENCE\n\n#### Neuromorphic computing may one day offer AI a power-saving brainwave\n\nHybrid systems could bring efficiency gains at the edge, but conventional infrastructure isn't going anywhere fast\n\n-\nAI AND ML\n\n#### AI nose uses 'Smell Language Model' to sniff out signs of disease\n\nSampling patients' breath may save lives and emergency room resources\n\n-\ncyber-crime\n\n#### Cyber offenses now account for around a third of all crime across Asia and South Pacific\n\nLatest Interpol review shows how scams continue to dominate, and AI-enabled attackers prove too hot to handle for cash-strapped regions\n\n-\nNetworkS\n\n#### Nvidia-backed optics vendor to boost wafer output by 4x to meet AI interconnect demand\n\nJensen can't risk semiconductor supply chains derailing the AI hype train\n\n[Infosec](https://beta.theregister.com/security)\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacks\n\nPLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more!\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attack\n\nPLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more\n\n-\nBlack Hat and DEF CON\n\n#### DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructure\n\nVoting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz Acronis\n\nWent at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified\n\n-\nMalware Month\n\n#### Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sight\n\nOn the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career\n\n[FOSS](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/FOSS)\n\n-\n#### France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity well\n\nNextcloud rollout shows locally controlled storage is one thing; getting users off Office is quite another\n\n-\n#### History of CentOS: How a biochemist's Linux hobby project became the enterprise world's default operating system\n\nWhen a community came together after Red Hat said Windows was 'probably the right product'\n\n-\n#### Netflix wiz creates app to slash AI bills, then open sources it\n\nProject Headroom could save you big money, too\n\n-\n#### OpenBSD 7.9 arrives, a diamond in the rough proud of every sharp edge\n\nSixtieth release adds more cores, delayed hibernation, and basic Wi-Fi 6 without losing its ascetic streak\n\n-\n#### Fedora: Microsoft is all aboard, but Deepin is dumped\n\nRed Hat’s free distro loses a desktop, but makes an important new friend\n\n-\n#### LocalSend puts your sneakernet out of business\n\nLike AirDrop, minus the Apple lock-in", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nasa-payload-to-ride-commercial-mars-orbiter-from-rocket-biz-yet-to-reach-orbit", "canonical_source": "https://www.theregister.com/science/2026/06/18/nasa-payload-to-ride-commercial-mars-orbiter-from-rocket-biz-yet-to-reach-orbit/5258341", "published_at": "2026-06-18 15:25:15+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-18 16:34:56.568062+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-research", "ai-policy", "autonomous-vehicles"], "entities": ["NASA", "Mars"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nasa-payload-to-ride-commercial-mars-orbiter-from-rocket-biz-yet-to-reach-orbit", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nasa-payload-to-ride-commercial-mars-orbiter-from-rocket-biz-yet-to-reach-orbit.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nasa-payload-to-ride-commercial-mars-orbiter-from-rocket-biz-yet-to-reach-orbit.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nasa-payload-to-ride-commercial-mars-orbiter-from-rocket-biz-yet-to-reach-orbit.jsonld"}}